Plunder and Deceit (24 page)

9
. Editorial, “President Obama's unilateral action on immigration has no precedent,”
Washington Post
, December 3, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-obamas-unilateral-action-on-immigration-has-no-precedent/2014/12/03/3fd78650-79a3-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html
.

10
. Samuel P. Huntington,
Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 180.

11
. Id., p. 184.

12
. Id., p. 185.

13
. Id., p. 196.

14
. Steve Camarota, “Immigrants in the United States, 2010: A Profile of America's Foreign-Born Population,” Center for Immigration Studies, August 2012,
http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2012/immigrants-in-the-united-states-2012.pdf
.

15
. Id.

16
. Congressional Budget Office, “The Economic Impact of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” June 2013,
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44346-Immigration.pdf
.

17
. U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “Why Our Current Immigration System Does Not Work for the Business Community,”
http://immigration.uschamber.com/reforms/why-our-current-immigration-system-does-not-work-for-the-business-community
.

18
. National Restaurant Association, “Ask the operator,”
http://www.restaurant.org/News-Research/News/Ask-the-Operator
.

19
. Benjamin W. Powell and Art Carden, “Why Is Immigration Illegal Anyway?” Independent Institute, November 20, 2011,
http://www.independent.org
.

20
. Id.

21
. Id.

22
. Steve Camarota and Karen Zeigler, “Are There Really Jobs Americans Won't Do?” Center for Immigration Studies, May 2013,
http://cis.org/are-there-really-jobs-americans-wont-do
(data derived and analyzed from U.S. Census Bureau data collected from 2009 to 2011).

23
. Id.

24
. Id.

25
. (Author name redacted), “Presentation of Data on the U.S. Foreign Born, Average Incomes of the Bottom 90% of Tax Filers, and the Estimated Share of Income Held by the Bottom 90% of the U.S. Income Distribution, 1945–2013.” Congressional Research Service, April 22, 2015,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/262874867/CRS-Income-and-Foreign-Born-Population
.

26
. Hal Salzman, Daniel Kuehn, and B. Lindsay Lowell, “Guestworkers in the High-Skill U.S. Labor Market.” EPI Briefing Paper # 359, April 24, 2013, Economic Policy Institute,
http://s3.epi.org/files/2013/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill-labor-market-analysis.pdf
.

27
. Id.

28
. Id.

29
. Byron York, “Business pushes immigration reform even as it lays off American workers,”
Washington Examiner
, October 3, 2013,
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/business-pushes-immigration-reform-even-as-it-lays-off-american-workers/article/2536800
. The Honorable Jeff Sessions,
Immigration Handbook for the New Republican Majority
, January 15, 2015,
http://www.sessions.senate.gov//files/16/77/39/f167739/public/_cache/files/67ae7163-6616-4023-a5c4-534c53e6fc26/immigration-primer-for-the-114th-congress.pdf
.

30
. U.S. Census Bureau, “Census Bureau Reports Majority of STEM College Graduates Do Not Work In STEM Occupations,” Release Number CB14-130, July 10, 2014,
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-130.html
.

31
. Hal Salzman, Daniel Kuehn, and B. Lindsay Lowell, “Guestworkers in the High-Skill U.S. Labor Market,” EPI Briefing Paper # 359, April 24, 2013, Economic Policy Institute,
http://s3.epi.org/files/2013/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill-labor-market-analysis.pdf
.

32
. Id.

33
. Id.

34
. Id.

35
. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Labor force status of 2013 high school graduates and 2012–2013 high school dropouts 16 to 24 years old by school enrollment, educational attainment, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, October 2013,”
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/news.release/hsgec.t01.htm
.

36
. Eric Ruark, “Generation Jobless—The Unemployment Crisis of Millennials,” Federation for American Immigration Reform, February 2014,
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/Generation-Jobless_Feb2014_rev.pdf
.

37
. Id.

38
. Id.

39
. Andrew Sum and Ishwar Khatiwada, “Still Young, Restless, and Jobless: The Growing Employment Malaise Among U.S. Teens and Young Adults,” Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, January 2004,
http://www.aypf.org/publications/stillyoungrestlessandjoblessreport.pdf
.

40
. Id.

41
. Id.

42
. Id.

43
. Id.

44
. Id.

45
. Id.

46
. Richard Fry, “A Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents' Home,” Pew Research Social & Demographical Trends, August 1, 2013,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/01/a-rising-share-of-young-adults-live-in-their-parents-home/
.

47
. Id.

48
. Id.

49
. Id.

50
. Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler, “All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants,” Center for Immigration Studies, June 2014,
http://cis.org/all-employment-growth-since-2000-went-to-immigrants
(data derived and analyzed from Current Population Survey for the first quarters of 2000 and 2014).

51
. Id.

52
. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey,”
http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
.

53
. Eric Ruark, “Generation Jobless—The Unemployment Crisis of Millennials,” Federation for American Immigration Reform, February 2014,
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/Generation-Jobless_Feb2014_rev.pdf
.

54
. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Civilian labor force participation rates by age, sex, race, and ethnicity,” December 2013,
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/emp/ep_table_303.htm
.

55
. Id.

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. Id.

57
. Richard Fry, “A Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents' Home,” Pew Research Social & Demographical Trends, August 1, 2013,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/01/a-rising-share-of-young-adults-live-in-their-parents-home/
.

58
. Milton Friedman, “Illegal Immigration, Part 1,” Lecture,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE
.

59
. Samuel P. Huntington,
Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 219.

60
. Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, Ph.D., “The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer,” Heritage Foundation, May 6, 2013,
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/pdf/sr133.pdf
.

61
. Id.

62
. Congressional Budget Office, “How Changes in Immigration Policy Might Affect the Federal Budget,” January 2015,
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/49868-Immigration.pdf
.

63
. Id.

64
. Paul Lewis, “Congressman warns of ‘civil war' among Democrats unless Obama acts on Immigration,”
Guardian
, November 3, 2014,
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/03/luis-gutierrez-obama-civil-war-deportation-immigration
. Eric Kayne, “Census: White majority in U.S. gone by 2043,” NBC News, June 13, 2013,
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/13/18934111-census-white-majority-in-us-gone-by-2043
.

65
. J. Christian Adams, “Homeland Security Working Overtime to Add ‘New Americans' by 2016 Election,” PJMedia.com, April 23, 2015,
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/04/23/homeland-security-working-overtime-to-add-new-americans-by-2016-election/#ixzz3YEbnp9EV
.

66
. Steven A Camarota and Karen Zeigler, “Immigrant Population to Hit Highest Percentage Ever in 8 Years,” Center for Immigration Studies, April 2015,
http://cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/immigration-population-highest_0.pdf
.

67
. Pew Research Center, “American Values Survey,” April 2015,
http://www.people-press.org/values-questions/q40n/more-restrictions-on-people-coming-to-live-in-our-country/#race
.

68
. Lydia Saad, “More in U.S. Would Decrease Immigration than Increase,” Gallup, June 27, 2014,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/171962/decrease-immigration-increase.aspx
.

69
. Alistair Bell, “Americans worry that illegal migrants threaten way of life, economy,” Reuters, August 7, 2014,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/07/us-usa-immigration-worries-idUSKBN0G70BE20140807
.

7. On the Environment

1
. “Ex-EPA official told lawmakers of project to ‘modify the DNA' of capitalism,” January 22, 2014, Fox News,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/22/ex-epa-official-told-lawmakers-project-to-modify-dna-capitalism/print
. John Beale, “Deposition of John C. Beale,” Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, December 19, 2013,
http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Beale-Deposition.pdf
.

2
. Naomi Klein, “Naomi Klein says climate activists need to get comfortable attacking capitalism,”
Grist.org
, October 9, 2014,
http://grist.org/climate-energy/naomi-klein-says-climate-activists-need-to-get-comfortable-attacking-capitalism/
.

3
. Barack Obama, interview with
San Francisco Chronicle
editorial board, January 17, 2008,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
.

4
. Barack Obama, interview with
San Francisco Chronicle
editorial board, January 17, 2008,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw
.

5
. 
Degrowth.org
, “Definition,”
http://www.degrowth.org/definition-2
.

6
. 
Clubfordegrowth.org
, “Our Philosophy,”
http://clubfordegrowth.org/our_philosophy/
.

7
. Federico Demaria, Fraccios Schneider, Filka Sekulaova, and Joan Martinez-Alier,
What Is Degrowth? From Activist Slogan to a Social Movement
,
Environmental Values
22 (2013): 191–215, White Horse Press.

8
. Id.

9
. Id.

10
. Id.

11
. Id.

12
. Serge Latouche, “The globe downshifted,”
Le Monde diplomatique
—English edition, January 13, 2006,
http://mondediplo.com/2006/01/13degrowth
.

13
. Id.

14
. Social PreCOP Preparatory Meeting, “Margarita Declaration on Climate Change,” July 15–18, 2014,
http://www.precopsocial.org/sites/default/files/archivos/margarita_declaration_on_climate_change.pdf
.

15
. Federico Demaria, Fraccios Schneider, Filka Sekulaova, and Joan Martinez-Alier,
What Is Degrowth? From Activist Slogan to a Social Movement
,
Environmental Values
22 (2013): 191–215, White Horse Press.

16
. Id.

17
. Mackenzie Mount, “Green Biz: Work Less to Live More,”
www.sierraclub.org
.

18
 Serge Latouche, “The globe downshifted,”
Le Monde diplomatique
—English edition, January 13, 2006,
http://mondediplo.com/2006/01/13degrowth
.

19
. Id.

20
. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,
The Communist Manifest
(London: Soho, 2010), p. 21.

21
. Ayn Rand (Peter Schwartz, ed.),
Return of the Primitive—The Anti-Industrial Revolution
(Meridian [Penguin], 1999), pp. 281, 282.

22
. Id., p. 285.

23
. Id., p. 286.

24
. Id.

25
. Mark J. Perry, “18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year,” American Enterprise Institute, April 21, 2014,
http://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocalyptic-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/print/
.

26
. John Brignell, “A Complete List of Things Caused by Global Warming,” Numberwatch, July 16, 2008,
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
; Mark R. Levin,
Liberty and Tyranny
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), pp. 140–43.

27
. Executive Order No. 12,291, 46 Fed. Reg. 13,193 (1981).

28
. Regulatory Development and Retrospective Review Tracker, Archived Rulemakings,
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/RuleGate.nsf/content/archivedrules.html?opendocument
. Regulatory Development and Retrospective Review Tracker, Rulemakings by Phase: Final Rule Published,
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/RuleGate.nsf/content/phasesfinal.html?opendocument
.

29
. Id.

30
. James E. McCarthy and Claudia Copeland, “EPA Regulations: Too Much, Too Little, or On Track?” Congressional Research Service, July 8, 2014,
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41561.pdf
.

31
. Regulatory Development and Retrospective Review Tracker, Rules by Projected Publication Date,
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/RuleGate.nsf/content/upcoming.html?opendocument
.